And thus comes the final battle. Two opponents enter the ring, only one comes out...
This was originally a gag harem story, wasn't it?!
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To Love-Ru is owned by Saki Hasemi, Kentaro Yabuki and SHUEISHA
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Don't let her fall..
That was all Kenichi Saruyama could think as He watched the green goblin hold his mother over a ledge by her neck...
Lala, lying on the ground in front of him while wearing a maid outfit for some reason, yelled "Please stop it!"
The goblin addressed the pinkette before him with a demonic smirk "Oho~! Think asking nicely will change my mind?! The world is not that simple as you'll see... When I add this woman's blood on your conscience!" He said, throwing Kenichi's mother off the building!
Both He and Lala screamed "NO!"
How did it even come to this?!
(Earlier that day)
"Seriously?... You guys just.. talked?"
Kenichi Saruyama smiled at his best friend as they had lunch at the local, and totally uncopyrighted, Benny's "Yeah! He was actually really interested in how I've been and how my grades are! He was actually impressed!" Kenichi said merrily at the fact his father had spent the rest of that day with him
"So... anything else you guys talked about?" Rito said nervously. The fact that Norman was somehow aligned with the green goblin and any information He got could end up revealing his identity to the villain and the scientist would be bad news
"Hmm... He asked about Lala-chan a bit."
Rito's eyes widened, alarmed at what that could mean "W-Wait what?..."
"Oh yeah, He was really interested that She could actually bring the glider to life and He wanted to see if She would work with him on projects, Why?"
"Oh nothing! I think I should be heading home.." Rito stood from the booth they were sitting at and quickly wiped his face with a napkin and threw on his finished plate
"Seriously?" Kenichi said tilting his head "Got something to do?"
"Uh... An essay! I've been procrastinating and I need to fix it that before school next week." Rito lied to try and save face
"Uh... I guess that's okay?" Kenichi said, knowing his friend liked to keep his grade on tiptop shape.
"Thanks man." Rito said making a dash to the exit
Kenichi watched his friend leave and turn back to his meal "y'know if you didn't have the cash, just say it, not dine-n-dash.."
He began to chew on his steak
"Oh that rhymed!... I am disgustingly proud of myself for that."
Rito in his Spider-Man outfit swung quickly to his home in the quickest of hurrys while his comm system dialed Lala without any luck
"Damn it Lala, pick up!" He said urgently, fearing that Norman might sic the goblin on Lala to possess her intellect, which She probably wouldn't agree to... and what scared him was what would happen then...
And the fact that if She got hurt in any way would anger her world-destroying father was also a factor He guessed...
"Damn it! Why isn't she picking up?!... Can She be out?! NOW?!" He said panicking, switching his call to another
"Hello?" A young voice answered
"Mikan! Hey, where are you guys, Lala isn't picking up her phone right now.."
"Rito? You sound out of breath?"
"Just did a run, how bout you?" He said impatiently
"Hmm... My friends and I are here, I think Lala went into the city to hang out, why you ask?"
"Oh nothing! Look I have to hang up real fast, Love ya!"
"Wait Wha-"
Rito shook his head "Friends? If they're who I think they are then it would really bad to let Lala go by herself!" His brain rattled through many courses of action: Alerting the authorities without a single piece of physical evidence besides a hunch was out unless He wanted to reveal himself and either laughed at or promptly arrested, He had no allies to-
Rito's eyes widened as his comm system booted up
"Come on, come on..."
"Hello? This is Zastin speaking?"
"Zastin oh thank god.."
"Rito-Dono? Why are you contacting me? I was in the middle of a very important bubble bath."
Rito snaps back "Screw your bubble bath, man! We got trouble!"
"Eh?... What is happening?" Zastin said seriously
"I think a bad guy might know who I am and about Lala, So I need some backup as fast as you can get here!"
"Hmm... Not a lot to go on, but very well, Smutts and Maul are stationed by Saibai-Sama's apartment, I will sent them towards the city."
"Smutts? Maul?"
"...Cracked knuckles and clothesline."
"OH! They have real names...That's a little disappointing, Imma still call em that"
"Not like I could stop you.."
"Ooo~! Mio, you look so cute!"
Lala clapped as She watched her glasses wearing friend walk around in maid cosplay in a cafe that She worked at, With many other cute looking girls too. Haruna and Risa were sitting beside her at their table Haruna was eating a piece of cake while looking away while Risa had two fingers in her mouth and whistled
"Shake what yo momma gave ya, honey!"
"Gah, Risa! You are so embarrassing!" Mio whined while balancing a dish in both arms
Haruna gave her friend a look "Do you really need us here?"
Risa smirks "Aw shucks, All I want is a little fun is all!"
"It isn't fun to me!" Mio shrieks back only getting a laugh from Risa
"Well I think you look super cute, Mio~!" Lala chirped while giving a grand smile "Too bad Peke is a little low on power or I'd join you!" She said marveling at her friends maid outfit, quite unlike the maid outfits the girls at her home wore when They cleaned up.
"Is that so?" A voice from behind them called aloud, they turn to see a old woman with grey hair and shades "You have a very nice figure, it would certainly bring more boys to our shop so what the heck? We might have an outfit just your size in the back."
"Oh really~? Okay!" Lala bounced away with the woman as her friends watched.
Suddenly, Risa looks Haruna dead in the eye
"So your love rival is gone..."
Haruna's eyes widened and looked to see La la walk into the back "W-what do you mean..."
Risa looks at her unamused "We both know what I mean, Haruna.."
Haruna looks away and sips her drink "..."
"It's about Yuuki."
Haruna's eyes widened as She spit out her drink before looking at the smug dirty blonde "E-eh?!...Y...Yuuki-kun... I don't..."
Rosa chuckles at her normally composed friend as She notice Mio's ear twitching towards them "And that's all the proof I need, Yuuki and Haruna sitting-" a pair of hands seal her mouth
"S-SSHH!" A completely flustered Haruna pleaded and after a few seconds, let's go and sits in her chair, red.
"Come on, that was so cute. Just say it already.." Risa placed her hands on both sides of her body while giving a look of a disciplinarian.
"I can't... I mean, We are barely even friends.. And he is always so busy, and I still have a lot on my mind and I think He does too..."
Risa sighed, She knew Yuuki liked Haruna. If it wasn't obvious enough, Saruyama confirmed it during of her teasing sessions, so it was really no risk, but she brought up his issues lately. "If you keep waiting, someone is just gonna come and gobble him up, Lala-Chan already lives in his house.."
Haruna goes bright again and looks really cute to her friend
"Don't sweat on the details like that, with his sister there, there's no way there could be any sexy time... UNLESS..." Risa quickly looks to another table to see the trademark of the 'Onii-Chan~' cafe, with a maid doing 'the line' with her patron turning into goo in her tiny imouto hands.
Haruna gasps and tries to stab Risa with her bendy straw "Shutupshutshutupshut-"
"Whoa whoa! Easy!" Risa pleaded, while placing her hand on the straw to lower it "Geez... I was just playing, Yuuki-kun wouldn't live such a life, He's such a wet blanket..."
"Damn it! These are filthy" Spider-Man screamed as He broke out of an air vent in a wall. He had just searched the inside of popular karaoke joint Kuro Neko in search of the illusive princess, and nothing to show for it except a dirty costume.
He tapped his ear piece and contact two partners in this operation "Clothesline, give me your status."
A gruff voice replied "That is not my name..."
"Not the time to be disputing that, Clothesline."
The voice growled again "Shopping district is coming up negative. No sign Of Lala-Sama Nor this goblin."
Spider-Man sighed "Neither is good especially since the sun's starting to set... Cracked Knuckles, How about you?"
A swallow was Heard "Oh yes... Well, Food district is cleared but *Gulp* I'll shall continue my watch.."
"...What the hell are you eating, Cracked knuckles..."
"Some Takoyak... Oh I shouldn't have said that."
"Damn it, Smutts!"
"I will knock your lights out, BOI!"
Clothesline spoke up "Hold on, I hear something..."
"Probably my seething rage..."
"Not that... It sounds like... Dear lord!"
This surprises the Spider-Man "What is it? Don't just leave us in suspense!"
"It's Peke!"
Cracked knuckles speaks up "Peke-Dono? Without Lala-sama?"
"Yes, but that isn't what alarms me..."
"...I'm scared to ask, but what?"
"That fact He's in a dark alleyway with one arm gone?"
"...Maul, please give us your location now..."
In the few seconds it took the revealed Maul to give his location, Spider-Man wasted no time and swung all the way to the shopping district and landed by a tight in-between alleyway near one of the many maid cafes in the city, Kenichi had made sure to take him to a few in his lifetime but it wasn't the store He had interest in, He never did see the point to them, It was deep in the alleyway where His increased senses travel down to see a blond man in a suit holding a small white blob.
(1) The white blob known as Peke was as described earlier with one functional arm, the left one having several puncture points and was hanging uselessly by his side. Spider-Man quickly runs to their side and looks at the damaged android and quickly webbing up the damaged area
"Peke! What happened?! Where's Lala!"
Peke only whimpered "Those eyes... Those horrible Acid-green eyes..."
Spider-Man's eyes widened "No way..."
A pair of soft emerald-green eyes belonging to a beautiful pink haired girl fluttered open as They scanned their surroundings to see the night sky on top of a building. One that was taller than most as many of the shops She has been to, A large red cross as a billboard told her this was a hospital, but how did She get here?
The last thing the girl remembered was saying bye to Haruna, Risa and Mio...
Lala Satalin Deviluke sighed in relief as She walked out the backdoor to the cafe as it was nearing closing time and her being an unofficial maid made her unsuitable to clean the shop despite the large revenue She had brought so She walked home after leaving from the backdoor, Haruna and Risa were gonna stay with Mio until closing since She lived near some darker parts of town.
So Lala walked down the alley with Peke as Her only companion, the nice lady from the shop had given her the maid outfit as a souvenir of her time working, which had Peke relieved as they didn't need to transform again. Oh yeah, She just remembered that Peke didn't have a real gender and could be a boy or girl if they want. But Just decided to identify as Male, it was their choice.
"Lala-sama, Mikan-sama and Saibai-sama will be planning a party for Rito-San in the upcoming days, have you thought to what to give him?" Peke asked curiously
Lala tapped her lip and looked at the sky curiously "Perhaps another Suki-Suki goggles-kun? He had been asking for a spare in case of this mask failing, so that?"
"Hmm... And the 'other' business?"
Lala gave her friend a flat look "Still on about suitors?"
"One of us has to be, Lala-sama, while you retain the air of procrastination, They will still come for you."
Lala sighed, running both her hands through her long hair "I know... But it's hard, not to mention they're not being any good candidates."
"I admit that is true but you might have one: Ren-sama."
Lala gave Peke a raised eyebrow "Why Ren-chan?
"It would only make the most sense, You are both royalty, have known each other for a long time and is one of the lesser crazed of all the suitors. He would be a smart choice."
"But I don't really like Ren-Chan that way, He is just a good friend."
Peke sighed in annoyance for some reason.
Her and Ren-Chan, though?... She didn't see it panning out, He was never able to keep up with her in childhood and is more accustomed to sitting down and just... talking about himself mostly. She typically blanks out of her conversations with him and only nods to him talking
"And then the only one left would be... Rito-san."
Lala blinks and looks at her friend "Rito... I guess He would be okay but He already said no..."
"Not really a 'no', more like 'There is other stuff to worry about for me'.."
"Is there really a difference?"
Peke sighed "Lala-sama, you are not giving us any choices."
Lala pouted and looked at the sky. She has thought about more than enough, Rito is a good friend, a REALLY GOOD friend but He still is so secretive and hurting if his momma's passing was anything to go by. Her heart feels something but She couldn't think what it could mean, is it pity? No, Rito is still very positive so that couldn't be it...
Happiness? It feels so much like that but... different somehow...
She didn't know what it could mean but She wanted to find out...
"Marriage is still going to take a while, so I need to give it more th-"
"OOO! Marriage? Will there be cake? Pie? I personally prefer pumpkin myself."
Lala and peke jump at the voice, a sinister high pitched voice... that sound all too familiar...
Lala heard steps and out walking from behind a corner... was that green meanie! on the news! Rainer of parades! Why was he here?...
The meanie smiled while giggling "Why if it isn't the beautiful inventor! Certainly better than my ex-wife..." He gave a nonchalant shrug while walking closer before holding an arm out to her "This location is unsuitable for a talk of civilize folk, might you come along so we could discuss our issues?"
Lala could only stare as She tried to make sense of the situation before Peke floated in-between her and the villain "Civilized? I hope you aren't talking about yourself, you monster!"
The green guy looked at Peke before pointing at her friend "Another obnoxious loudmouth? I have just the medicine for you..."
Huh? What did He mean by-?
Suddenly a green blast flew out of the bad guys finger, hitting Peke and sending them flying over her head!
"Peke! Ugh!" Her left arm was grabbed and She was lifted in the air by the green man
The green man smirked as He looked at her "I daresay it is high time we leave, This is a conversation of the upmost importance."
"No way!" Suddenly Peke returns with a large hammer and tries slamming it at the bad guy! Only for the hammer to be caught without any effort by the bad guy...
Peke squawks as the hammer was ripped from their hands, in the state of surprise, they didn't noticed the clawed hand reach for THEIR arm! It slowly lost air as the bad guy cackled like a bad guy in magical Kyouko! Only much more scary!?
The green man's smile widen farther than She had thought possible with his mouth reaching up to his cheeks "Does the baby need a lullaby to go to sleep?" The squeezing of his hand got harder "The itsy bitsy spider went up the waterspout... until the goblin... TOOK THE SPIDER OUT!~" And Peke's arm popped like a balloon!
Peke scream as They fell to the ground right before the bad guy steps on them! "Then came the fire to bring all the pain... The itsy bitsy spider will NEVER SWING AGAIN! AHAHA!"
Lala screamed as loud as She could "Stop hurting them! I'll do what you want!"
Peke whimpered "Lala-Sama...Don't..."
The 'Goblin' Laughs as He kicks Peke away into a wall "Wise choice, my sweet! Now We must be on our way, Lady Saruyama is still breathing!"
Lala's eyes widened as He said that "Wait wha-?!" Before the goblin pointed a fist at her face with a tube popping out of his gauntlet
"Sleeeeep" And a puff of smoke came out and!...
That was it...
Lala shook her head, not understanding anything that was going on, but She had to leave now.
She quickly ran to a nearby door to only find it locked, making her frown "Hmm... I could always use a tool... Where's my D-Dial?" She patted her skirt to find her phone only to find it missing "That's weird, I knew I had it on me..."
Jet turbines bring her out of her musing as She sees the goblin descending from above her, Her D-Dial in his hand "OOO~! Such Delightful schematics! Truly a bright mind you are!" Goblin laughed going through her phone
"H-Hey that's mine!"
Goblin gave her a raised eyebrow look "Quite, oh look! Yuuki boy is sending you another message! 'Lala! Are you okay? Peke is fine, damn you goblin' AWW, He does care!" He laughed, looking her right in the eyes
Lala moved backwards and had Her back against the wall "Why are you doing this?... WHY!"
The goblin smiled wider "A motivation you ask? Well can't say I have one, besides good old payback for my employer." He leaps off his glider and lands in front of her "And to take what is rightfully ours: The company, this city, nation, the whole world!" He raised his arms high
Lala gulped and did not respond as the bad guy spun in place
"But I need power to do that, and that fool is too stubborn for his own good, so I must ask you this: Will you help me take over this world, Princess of the planet Deviluke!"
Lala's eyes widened "H-How-"
"Do I know?" He smiled "That friend of yours is putty in my hand, He lets me know plenty of things... Even things He doesn't get, Like the fact your boyfriend Yuuki is Spider-Man!" He cackled
Lala's eyes widened again "T-That's wrong! H-He is not-"
"Your boyfriend? Not Spider-Man? Girl, I am not the morons of this city! I gained all the pieces of the puzzle and put them all together, it was so obvious." He raised his hand at the girl "Now I know of that species of alien, this world will flock under my hand with your inventions!"
Lala crossed her arms across her chest "And if I said no?..."
Suddenly the door behind her starts banging making her hop out of the way and stare at it, the goblin smirks at it before pressing a button on his gauntlet "I will have no issue dealing with insubordination, especially since I... Have the right leverage!"
The door opens to reveal Kenichi Saruyama opening the door, huffing and puffing "W-Where is she?... Why did you do- EH Lala-Chan?!" He said surprised
She looked at him in her own surprise "Kenichi? Why are you here?"
He shook his head and glared at the goblin "He has my-MOM?!" He said in shock looking behind the villain
Lala turned to see him as well and saw dangling from a cable attached to the Glider was a woman in a hospital gown who looked asleep, the woman She had met at Sarutech, Kenichi's Momma!
Goblin smirked, reaching his arm out and grabbing the woman by the neck, looking at them "Yes, the one who has it all. The one who will lose it all!"
Kenichi sprinted at the villain "Don't you dare-UGH!" He was blasted back by a blast of green energy from goblin's finger
Goblin looked at the boy unimpressed with a smoking finger "How rude, I was in the middle of my monologue." He said, ripping the woman off of the cable
Lala couldn't just stand there and also sprinted at the bad guy who could react in time because of her incredible burst of speed as She grabs the arm holding Ms. Saruyama and tries to free her. Her superior strength makes the goblin slowly lose his handle on the woman
This only served to anger the goblin "Stupid bitch!" And with his unoccupied hand, He backhands Lala to the ground with a red mark on her face. Kenichi who saw this screamed
"Lala-Chan!"
(2) The princess of Deviluke could only lay there, her hand covering her stinging face as tears began to fill her eyes. She had never actually felt pain that was intentional, sure She was caught in experiment explosions before and the occasional rough-housing from her childhood often let to many-a scrapes and bruises but this?...It hurt TOO much...
Kenichi struggled to get back on his feet and could only get up to one knee when He heard a mumble, a mumble that caught the three's attention. He looked to see his mother begun to rapidly blink and mumble intelligently "Mom?!"
The voice brought her to her senses "H-Huh?... Kenichi?... Where are-UGH!" The goblin tightens his grip on the woman's throat making her gasp
The goblin tilts his head as He peers into the woman's soul with his glowing eyes "Why hello my dear... Glad to see you could make it, it would've been so boring if you were still asleep!" He said walking closer to the edge of the building
This shocked the three as the woman tried to shake herself from his grasp but lack the sufficient strength. The teens cried out "Stop!"
The goblin merely glanced their way "I'll say... NOPE!" He laughed as He neared the edge
Kenichi was scared silent when Lala screamed "Please stop it!"
The goblin addressed the pinkette before him with a demonic smirk "Oho~! Think asking nicely will change my mind?! The world is not that simple as you'll see... When I add this woman's blood on your conscience!" He said, throwing Kenichi's mother off the building!
The teens screamed helplessly "NO!"
The goblin laughed at their misery "Deviluke, You now know of what happens to those who defy the green goblin, now if you excuse me, I shall watch dear Nodoka become a splatter on the pavement!" He said turning to look over the edge
Kenichi growled and willed himself onto his feet and and begun to stagger towards the green goblin in rage.
Then he saw the goblin leap back in surprise before a red blur zooms over all of them while spinning. The spinning object touches to reveal themselves as Spider-Man holding... His mother?!
Ms Saruyama looked dizzy with swirls for pupils "Why is everything so spinny?..."
The hero winced at the woman in his arms "Sorry, though to be fair, you kinda crashed into me so I have to improvise to save us." He turned to look at Kenichi "Take her and the other girl and get downstairs, I'll handle big green and ugly."
Kenichi stared for a moment before nodding, Spider-Man shifting Ms Saruyama into her son's arms. He shifted some weight around to hold her properly before bowing his head at the hero "Thank you..."
Spider-Man turned to Lala and silently nodded to her, making the girl smile "Are you okay?"
The girl quickly covered her cheek "Y-Yes..."
The hero's eyes narrowed before turning to the goblin "Alright Gobby, this could only end in two ways: You surrender peacefully and go to the big house like a good boy or I kick your keister to the curb and sent to a nice cell with a tattooed covered roommate named Daisy, your choice."
The goblin smirked "I choose... Option three!" He said having a pumpkin bomb pop out of the glider, catching it and tossing it at the hero
The hero meekly replied "Why always option three?" Before webbing the bomb and proceeded to spin it around himself "Take cover!" He said to the occupants who heeded his advice as He hurled the bomb high into the air, safely detonating without any damage.
The goblin's glider zoomed forwards the hero and tackled Spider-Man!
The hero winced before climbing up to the top of the glider where The goblin tried wringing the spider's neck as the hero tried to keep the bad guy off of him while trying to knock him off the glider. Unbeknownst to the combatants, the struggle caused Lala's D-Dial to fall off goblin's person as they travel off of the roof of the building.
The three spectators watched as they brawled before the mother and son made way towards the door "Lala-Chan, come on!" Kenichi said
Lala only stared at the hero and villain fighting before looking to see her phone on the floor
(Music insert:Spider-Man 2 soundtrack: Suctioncups)
Spidey and the goblin flew over the rooftops of the city in a intense power struggle before Goblin was victorious and grabbed Spider-Man by the neck, making him gasp before the glider to spin around and the goblin threw Spider-Man into a wall, crashing and leaving an imprint on it.
The hero groaned before pushing himself off and landing on the closest rooftop as The goblin began to fire electric blasts at him making the hero run down the roofs to get a way, dodging blasts, left and right.
The goblins laughs while questioning "Why don't you just give up?!" He said smiling his wicked smile
The hero vaults over an air-conditioning unit before a blast destroys it "Ever heard of the one with great power and great responsibility? My responsibility is keeping wackjobs like you off the streets!" He said before shifting his midair momentum to look at the goblin before firing a web, hitting goblin in the chest and pulling himself to the baddy and kicking him of the glider and landing on it!
...Before goblin grabs the end of the glider and using it to quickly use flexibility to to grab the front of the glider with his legs and again flipping to get back on top of the machine and knocking the hero off with a quick elbow. "Pop goes the weasel!"
This made Spider-Man land on a crane on a construction site with a hard thud, making him groan in pain "Okay.. All this pain just means I'm still alive..."
"NOT. FOR. LONG! AHAHA!" The goblin said firing a bomb at the base of the crane! It quickly detaches itself and begins to fall to the streets below, The CROWDED STREETS BELOW! Alarmed Spider-Man quickly thinks of a plan...
"Okay, this is picking up a lot of speed.. If I could just web Key points of the shaft..." He said, staring to run on the crane before webbing a closeby building and wrapping it around the end of the crane, slowing it down a little. The web was strained but held strong
Not stopping, Spider-Man lands on the crane, running up, leaping off and repeating, gaining a better result.
He goes for a third time and see the top of the crane and and see the hook of the thing flailing around while doing the process for a third time. He finishes just in time for the hook to hit a building, just as it was about to bounce off, Spider-Man fires a thick web to keep it in place and a few more webs to have it stay there. That should give any civilian on the street time to clear off...
"And voila! Now where did I leave-UGH?!" He shouted getting shot in the back by a strange gooey substance that quickly spreads and hardens over his whole torso! "What the hell?!" He said before a grappling hook connected to a long cable latched onto the rocky substance and yank him upwards
The cable was connected to the goblin glider as He laugh maniacally "What do you think of my 'GOB'-Webs, SPIDER-MAN?!"
Spider-Man only groaned at the joke "Ugh, Dad jokes? Serious-LLLYYYYYY?!" The hero screamed as He was dragged at high speeds as the Glider began to travel quickly through the city
The goblin laughed "If you thought that was cringe-worthy, let us see how you fare against the sounds of all your organs popping!" He swerved the glider to have it's captive passenger slam into a building making the hero cry out in pain
"Oh god!"
"Hm... I think that was just a bruised lung, Let's go for a ruptured stomach next." The goblin led the glider into having Spider-Man smack against several hard building exteriors, chipping chucks of rock from the buildings, earning rips and tears in his costume and more broken bones "OOO~! That looks like fun!"
Spider-Man, through all of the pain, open his eyes to see what Goblin was talking about to have them become bug-eyed when They saw the large glass building! "Aw crap!" The goblin swerved the glider into sending Spider-Man through the glass window, shattering it into many pieces. Spider-Man fell to the ground and landed on a pile of broken glass making him wince in pain before being suddenly through another window and shattering that into a million pieces.
They flew for a few minutes before the green goblin turned to look at the bleeding hero, looking kinda bored "Well, it has been fun Spider-Man but I think it's time We pack it and go HOME !" He said, detaching the cable holding the Spider. Alarmed, Spider-Man flailed in the air for a bit before breaking through a window and slamming into several wooden boxes, the force of all of this breaks the goblin's binding webs, allowing the hero to rub in his muscles in agony
"Fucking hell... where am I?.." Spider-Man takes a look at his surroundings and sees rows and rows of wooden crates, his hypothesis leads him to think He was in some sort of warehouse, maybe by the shipping docks if He could fathom a guess. He blinks to see Suke Suke glasses-kun, or at least the on his left eye, shattered "Geez, you lasted a while huh, pal?.. Hehe... it hurts to laugh..."
He looked to his wrists and saw they were both half empty, better safe than sorry, Spider-Man quickly replaces the cartridges to have them full but as He replaced one arm, his Spider-sense kicked in. Alarmed, He turned his to see a small orange ball bounce closed to him. Knowing what it was,Spider-Man tried to leap out of the way but was caught in the blast radius sending the hero flying into a crate.
The Hero fell to the floor with a painful thud and a whimper, suddenly a footsteps came strolling towards him and He saw green boots coming towards from the floor He was on, and a cold voice said "Misery, Misery, Misery, That's what you had chosen..." Spider-Man shakily got back up on his feet to stare at the goblin... and his two identical brothers... "I'd offer you friendship only to have it spat in my face."
The goblin threw a left hook which made Spider-Man try to play defensively and block with both his arms, only to have goblin a hidden right hook aimed for his gut. The hit confirmed to the hero that something was bleeding inside if the bloody cough was anything to go by. The goblin sent another punch to the spider's face but the hero dodged the swing to get quickly kneed in the face . the quick rising of Spider-Man's allowed goblin to follow through with a solid punch to the face, making the hero spit up more blood.
The hero was left staggered which led to be easy prey for the goblin to uppercut, sending him fly several feet and landing with a yelp. As Spider-Man tried picking himself up again, The goblin leaps in and delivers a two hit combo to the hero's face again, breaking his nose and pushing him back a few inches. The goblin proceeds to rush in and try to punch the hero some only for the spider to be ready.
Firing a web line to the roof of the building, Spider-Man planned to leap over the villain and try and call back up, but the goblin was cunning and when hero tried to leap in the air, the villain latched onto the hero's legs and send him crashing into the concrete.
(Music insert: Spider-Man the movie soundtrack-Final confrontation)
Spider-Man laid on the ground, battered and broken but not beaten as He tried lifting his arm to fire a web. The goblin quickly steps on his hand. "You've spun your last web, Spider-Man."
Spider-Man bit his lip to hold the scream that tried to leave inside. He looked with blurry eyes at his green opponent.
"Had you not been so SELFISH, your little girlfriends death would have been quick and painless, as well as Yuuki Mikan and Saibai." He sneered
Spider-Man's senses slowly came into focus, did he just say?...
"But that you really pissed me off, I'm going to finish them nice and slow..."
What the hell did He just say?!...
The bad guy pulls back his fist "Those little girlies and I? We're gonna have one hell of a time!" And goblin proceeded to punch Spider-Man right in his face...
At least that was his intention as Spider-Man caught his fist. The Hero slowly began to crush the hand He held, the goblin tried to pull his fist from the hero's grasp to no avail. Suddenly, Spider-Man devilered a great punch to the bad guy's chest, sending HIM through a crate! The hero growled "Don't you ever fucking touch them!"
Goblin groaned in pain before, out of nowhere, Spider-Man appeared with his fist pulled and gave the bad guy a powerful uppercut, making the villain soar into the sky!
Spider-Man not missing his chance leaps to the air enough to place his feet on goblin shoulders like before. Here he fired a web at the villains face and kinks off him to touch the ceiling while holding the web. Quickly attaching it to the ceiling, he changes his position fires a web at the ceiling and leaps at the goblin once again, punching him to attach the web, landing on the ground and repeating the process.
He repeats this process before He ends up on the ceiling again and goes to add another before noticing the goblin was in a perfect cocoon of web, fighting to escape. Spider-Man grits his teeth and squats on the ceiling "Maximum..."
He leaps from the ceiling, his arm stretched behind charging a punch and connects his haymaker to the goblins skull! "SPIDER!"
The force of the attack snaps all of the lines of webbing and sends goblin slamming against a brick wall. Not allowing his oppenent any chance of escape, Spider-Man quickly swings to goblin to erase the distance "Ya like that?!"
Goblin tries to stand before getting knocked down by Spider-Man giving him a nice right hook to the face "Having fun yet?!"
Spider-Man prepared another attack to keep the villain down, He had to stop him here and now, if not, Lala, Mikan and his father were in trouble. He couldn't allow that to happen! He launched his attack "Eat th-"
"WAIT! RITO, STOP! IT'S ME!"
Spider-Man halted as his blood ran cold. He knew that voice. That voice shouldn't have been here... And it shouldn't have came from the goblins mouth...
The goblin griped the top of his head and yanked hard. Spider-Man had known from the beginning that it was a mask... But the face underneath was what shocked him...
Rito stared at a man with scraggly red hair, frightened brown eyes and a bloody beaten face.
Spider-Man could only mumble "Mr Osborn..."
Mr Osborn struggled to get up "Oh thank God for you, Yuuki Rito..."
Spider-Man only stared as He tried to make sense of the situation. Kenichi's father was the goblin? That couldn't be, it shouldn't be! But... "Y-You KILLED all those people on that balcony!" He said horrified
"The goblin killed them! I had nothing to do with this, I have been his prisoner ever since I tested the green!"
Spider-Man could stare as the man hugged his shoulders
"You have to save me, Yuuki Rito! Protect me!"
Spider-Man was at a loss but found the words to say "You tried to kill Ms Saruyama! And hurt so many others!" He said angrily
"It was all the goblin I said! Please! Help me expel this demon and the green!" Mr Osborn pleaded to him, slowly gripping his wrists now, His voice shifting from his normal Norman voice and his ghastly goblin one "I tried to stop him, but I couldn't stop him... At least not alone, but you, amazing Spider-Man have the power to save me like so many others so I beg you, Help me... for Kenichi's sake..." He said lowering his head
Spider-Man gripped both sides of his head in frustration, this couldn't be happening! Ken's Father could get life in the hoosegow and it will be all his fault! Everything about today was making his head hurt! Wait... this was... SPIDER-SENSE?!
His ears caught the faint sound of turbines nearby before the familiar sound of a glider zooming forward! Osborn was just screwing with him to keep him still! Lucky Spider-Sense was here to save the day!
As the glider got close, Spider-Man performed a super jump and leaped high into the air to evade the devious attack, dodging perfectly! Now that was taken care of and- Wait a minute... Mr Osborn was still in the path of the glider?!
Mr Osborn did not expect the evasion was caught off-guard allowing his glider to close the distance and
*SHINK* *STAB*
STAB MR OSBORN RIGHT IN THE GUT, PINING HIM TO THE WALL?!
Spider-Man looked mortified as He watched the father of his best friend get violently stabbed, blood spewing everywhere as He violently coughed it up. Spider-Man landed from his jump and ran straight to the wounded man
"Mr Osborn! Oh god, please don't die!" He screamed, gripping the glider and pulling it out to find it very deep with even more blood appearing as Osborn wailed in pain "Jesus christ, just hold on!"
Osborn had tears in his eyes with blood trailing from his mouth, He stared the hero right in the eyes and said "Yuuki... Why?..." He said before falling over, his body sprawled over the glider. He did not move for a second, nor in a minute, or even an hour. Spider-Man stood there staring at the man... He had just killed...
Spider-Man ripped off his mask and yank on his hair, eyes widen open staring at the dead man with pouring tears coming from them. His vision shifted, replacing Mr. Osborn's bloody corpse with another, A woman this time. "No... NOT AGAIN!" He cried out loud. "WHAT HAVE I DONE?!"
The only response was the dripping of Mr Osborn's blood on the ground.
Lala watched Kenichi pace around the room impatiently, his mother was taken to be tested on her health after the experience with the goblin. Kenichi's arm was in a sling with herself have only a band-aid over her cheek. They were in the the room Kenichi's mother was in before, so there was a large hole in the wall, They weren't alone as Maul, Smutts and Peke were their too. She was slowing repairing Peke's arm while Maul and Smutts kept guard as they were told earlier by Rito as Spider-Man
Kenichi groaned while looking at a clock "It's been an hour, are they still going?"
Lala tilted her head "The doctor's or the fight?"
"Just one? the other? Both? I don't know..." He hung his head in frustration "I just want to know how long this was going to take is all!"
Maul growled, turning to look at him "Paitence, you might not like whatever the answer would be if they rushed.."
Kenichi took that as a sign to shut uo and just stare at the clock, gripping his hands so tight his nails were stabbing into his palms. All of this suspense was killing him...
Lala looked at peke next to see the robot charging on a portable battery she brought for emergencies "You feeling any better?" She said concerned for her friend
Peke nodded merrily "Why yes, I was only alarmed at the attacks, I don't have any pain censors. Thank you for your concern, Lala-sama!"
Lala smiled before turning to the hole in the wall, She had tried calling Rito but now He wasn't picking up, it left her rather worried. She knew He would win but... it would be nice to confirm it... Her heart was pounding harder than it ever had before, She just wanted her friend to be safe...
Smutts shifted slightly "Hmm? There is something in the distance..."
This caught all their attentions, Maul and Kenichi ran over to the hole to see something coming towards them. Kenichi squinted hard as He couldn't make it out "What is it?..."
Maul focused "It appears to be... Spider-Man..."
Lala and Kenichi perked up "Really?"
"Yes and He seems... to be carrying something..."
Kenichi blinked to see He was correct. Spider-Man was now in focus and He was carrying... a green person! The goblin! He had won! but... something didn't feel right...
They moved back as Spider-Man leaped into the room and landed on the floor. He appeared beaten and worn, his mask in tatters as blood covered every inch of him. He looked to be sad... but why?
Spider'Man slowly shifted the goblin of his shoulder and placed him on a nearby bed, finally the monster was d-... No..
Kenichi's blood froze as He looked at the face of the man in the goblin armor, that had a giant stab wound in the abdomen. The man's red hair was unmistakable...
"D-Dad?... Dad!" He ran to the bedside to get a closer look, it was his father. Bloodied, Beaten, broken but most of all... dead... "This can't be happening... You are just fucking with me, right?... This is NOT HAPPENING!" He screamed before looking at Spider-Man who held his head in shame "What did you do... WHAT DID YOU DO!?" He demanded
Spider-Man shook at the outburst and said "I-It all happened so fast, one moment He was talking about change.. the next, He was stabbed by his glider..."
Kenichi gritted his teeth, He was finally getting somewhere too! "You killed him!"
Spider-Man looked as is He was strucked by an attack "I-I didn't- I mean, I would never-I!"
Kenichi angrily stomped to the hero and delivered a punch to his face with his okay arm, knocking the hero down "You didnt have the right!... You are NO HERO!"
His arms were held back by Smutts and Maul as Spider-Man groggily picked himself up and inched himself to the hole in the wall
Kenichi looked at him lividly and yelled "Don't think this is over! I'll kill you for this! You hear me?! You are fucking dead!"
Spider-Man hanged his head in shame as He got up and stood near the hole
"You are no HERO, ONLY A MURDERER!"
Lala gasped at his words as her guards cringed harshly. Suddenly, Spider-Man hurled himself out the wall and fell to the streets below
Kenichi began growling while tears fell from his eyes "Why..."
Spider-Man fell quickly to the concrete below. His ears instead of rushing wind were filled with words of the past...
Oh well, to each his own...I chose my path and you, the way of the hero but for how long?
Spider-Man aimed a web shot at a building to swing and avoid become roadkill, but he felt no amusement. No joy. Only utter devastation.
The people have found you amusing, saving kittens from trees and what not, but how long until you CAN'T save someone? or even SOMEONES?
Spider-Man couldn't bring to fire another web shot so at the apex of his swing, he let go and soar through the air to land on his face on top of a building
Heroes and can be brought down as easily as they are built up when they fail, fall and especially when they DIE TRYING
Spider-Man held his insides in pain, everything he had just dealt with for the past hour was all coming back to him, both physical and mental with the constant berates from the goblin...
That despite everything you do for this city
The city?... Everyone in it?... He could just picture Mikan, Dad, Lala, Haruna-Chan, kenichi, Ms Saruyama and many others... All just staring at him... Emotionless...
EVERYONE will come to hate you
"YOU ARE NO HERO!"
Suddenly, everyone's faces shifted to looks of disgust, eyes all turning a deep red
Mikan upturned her nose "Ugh, Such a disappointing brother... if I could call you even that!"
Saibai glared with gritted teeth "You absolute fuck up!"
Spider-Man's eyes slowly began to water, please stop...
Mikan's friend point and laugh "Loser loser!"
Ren smirks "As I expected, YOU ARE WEAK!"
Stop...
Motemitsu high-fives his friends "So much for the spectacular Spider-DIPSHIT! HA!"
Kenichi strolls up to him holding a pumpkin bomb, his eyes being green instead of red like the others. GOBLIN green.. "You are no hero, Only a murderer!"
Lala looked down at him, eyes of ugly emotion screaming out about how much He was scum "Ugh... I relied on you?..."
Every all just looks at him and said altogether "You really do SUCK." (3)
He couldn't take it anymore... Spider-Man let out a heartbroken cry that could be heard for miles around
"Spider-Man!"
Spider-Man flinches, scared of what the next stab in the heart will be...
"Are you okay?!"
Spider-Man opens his eyes to see Zastin, bending down over him with his gauntlet hand on the spider's shoulder light shaking it.
"Dear god... These injuries are too great, Only Ryouko Mikado-Sensei could heal you now, come now." Zastin said, slowly lifting the hero up in a fashion that if He was seen, it would look quite BL. It almost made Spidey laugh
"Zastin, that really you? How was your bath, I got blown up by grenades..."
Zastin cringed as blood began to pour from the Spider's wounds. He shakes it off and looks Spider-Man in the eyes "Don't nod off, these wounds will be dealt with, push on through soldier."
Spidey scoffed without any merriment "Easy for you to say, Mr bubblegum pop-wash...Hehe..." He coughed up a little blood "Ugh... it hurts to laugh..."
While Spider-Man sounded like He was just joking, He was glad Zastin was here, if nothing else then to shut up the voices in his head. They trailed along to Mikado-Sensei's home to heal the battle-damaged hero
It was a week since the end of the goblin and all was well. The rinky dink complex that was Oscorp was raided and all of Norman's possessions were now in police custody before being placed in Sarutech's care.
Kenichi Saruyama had took a leave from school to recover both mentally and physically from the loss of his father, as He prepared for the funeral for his father. He had no contact with any of his classmates since then... except for one.
The one classmate stood behind his friend in a white dress shirt, black tie and coat with matching slacks. His friend wore a similar outfit of course, as it was a mourning outfit. They stood before a nameless gravestone, as when it would have been tarnished since the identity of the goblin was know by all since his death.
Kenichi placed a bundle of flowers on the freshly moved dirt in silence. His mother soon left as She wanted nothing more to do with Norman and left both boys at the site to wait by the car. Both teens just stared at the gravestone in silence
Kenichi sighed harshly "I was always jealous of you..."
Rito blinked in confusion "What do you mean?"
Kenichi sighed again "Even without them being there for you all the time... You had some loving parents, and a sweet younger sister, sure it was dysfunctional but... there WAS love!" He exclaimed "That was something I always wanted for me... I had hoped... One day, they would of got over their issues and We could be a family..." Kenichi stared at the stone some more "That dream is dead now..."
Rito stared at his friend pouring his heart out, He had always figured that was the case but to have it heard aloud? He never thought He'd see the day... and really wished He hadn't. The teen walked to his friend and placed a hand on his shoulder in a comforting manner "I know what it's like to lose a parent... It'll be rough but I got your back, man.."
Kenichi sighed "I didn't lose him... He was stolen from me," He clenched his fist and brought it to eye-level "Spider-Man WILL pay, I swear on my father's grave, Spider-Man will pay..."
Rito stared at his friend in shock, Spider-Man hadn't made an appearance since that day as Rito couldn't bring himself to even look at the costume let alone fix it or let Peke do it. Spider-Man was indefinite hiatus... Kenichi would've like that...
Rito sighed as gave his friend's shoulder a slight squeeze "If you ever need anything... I'll be there to lend an ear."
Kenichi turned to his friend and gave a nod "Thanks buddy.." and pulled his friend into a hug and He did not object, He didn't have the right to. They parted and Kenichi looked down "Are those for who I think they are?.."
Rito's left hand held a small bushel of roses, nowhere near as big as the one Kenichi left for his father but it was the sentiment that counted, right? "I figured I'd might as well see her as I was here..."
Kenichi nodded and walked to the car "I'll tell mom to wait for you."
Rito shook his head "Don't worry, I'll walk home, you just take it easy man."
Kenichi nodded and walked to the car. Rito stared as the car drove away and through the gates. We waited a few moments before walking to a nicer part of the cemetery and a grave stone titled 'Yuuki Ringo April 1975 - April 2016, A loving wife and mother R.I.P.'
(Music: Spider-Man 2002 OST-Farewell)
Rito placed the small bundle in a slot meant to hold flowers and sat on his knees before the grave "Hey mom... It's me! Uh... I... Don't know if you'd want me here but I did that Spider-Man thing like I promised! To various results, Hehe..." The boy rubbed his hair "Uh... yeah, Mikan is doing okay as well as pop, Peni wrote to us not to long ago... said She missed you too... Great Aunt May is doing fine, still has a lot of years on her! Uh..."
He was being really awkward in this situation, He had no idea what He was doing besides spewing word vomit
"Oh yeah, speaking of Spider-Man, We have a guest in our house, Her names Lala Satalin Deviluke, She's an alien... Yeah I know but She has a good heart on her. Really nice, you would of loved her! Especially with that... 'THING' you did to cute girls... Hehe..." He looked to the side and blushed "And... Still haven't confessed to Haruna-Chan yet, I'm working on it! But... I think evading gunfire sounds way easier than talking to the girl of your dreams..."
He sighed, knowing He was avoiding a certain topic
"The thing is... I don't know if I should keep doing this... I mean, No matter what I do, the people I love will always suffer because of Spider-Man... You told Me about this responsibility and having a great power but... I don't think I can keep up, I try so hard and what I get back is having to explain to Mikan and Dad for two days straight that I wasn't out doing drugs or getting arrested for jaywalking to not be home that one night I spent at Mikado-sensei's house in her 'dragon ball' styled healing pod... I think... about giving up... but if I do... would you be upset?..." He asked hesitantly
He had no reply
He chuckled darkly "Yeah... I thought so..."
"I think She would understand."
His eyes widened as He turned his head to the voice and standing there was Lala in a modest black dress, heels and a large umbrella hat with swirly eyes that confirmed that it was Peke as the outfit as They recently got their arm back. "Lala?... How long were you there?..."
Lala smiled gently "Long enough... Do you think She would of liked me?" She said looking at his mother's grave
"O-Oh yeah, of course, what's not to like?" This got a giggle from the princess
"Thanks, Hehe..." She looked at the gravestone intensely "I never actually visted a graveyard before... Momma and Papa didn't have Mommy's, Daddy's, Brother's or Sisters and They let us not attend services for fallen guards..."
Rito nodded "Well... I can't say your welcome but..."
"Was She happy?"
Rito's eyes widened "Eh?.."
Lala smiled sadly "Was She happy?... before..." She quieted down but He could tell to what She was referring to
He sombered "I'm sorry to say... No... She was crying... something I never wanted to see..."
This left them in a akward silence
"Lala-"
"Rito-"
Both paused
"Uh... you go first.."
"No.. You go..."
"I insist..."
"I didn't really have anything to say, I just said your name..."
Rito sighed "Lala... What do you think... about everything about... Mr Osborn?..."
Lala hummed with a finger on her lip "Hmm..."
Rito held his breath
"You did all you could, right?.."
Rito blinked "Y-yeah, I did.."
Lala smiled gently "Then that's my answer, you are a good person, Rito. Don't think otherwise..."
Rito felt a little better... but... There was something He needed to do... He just hopes He doesn't regret it "Lala..."
"Yes Rito?" The princess said immediately
"Do you... trust me?"
Lala blinked and then nodded "Of course I do."
Rito sighed, not for long... "Then I think it's time I told you..."
Lala blinked and tilted her head "Tell me what?"
Rito took a deep breath and exhaled, turning to the princess "It's time I told you... my origin..."
And curtains closed on the green goblin arc and next time is storytime. I had been fighting myself on where I put this specific arc, for later made sense as the goblin is a really big climatic villain and some might think that just killing him here would be a waste...
And then I thought of how the whiplash on how characters reacting to such an event and how it affect future event, Kenichi taking up the mantle, Spider-Rito's slowly deteriorating state of mind, the darkness that will follow everyone to their dying days?...
That is why I went with it.
So... yeah! That was something
(1) Always thought Peke was sort of like Baymax in build so I'm running with that logic
(2) You mean to tell me a princess who had made in the lap of luxury is on par with a DBZ fighter? Okay maybe the stats on strength, Speed and dexterity could be passed down by her genes but I'm making her defense shit as I don't think good genes leaves you immune to planet destroying attacks. That is a bit of the balancing I have in play, Lala will fight but after coming to the realization that this isn't a game... CIVIL WAR is the apex of this
(3) I had watched Noragami prior to this chapter and couldn't help referencing Episode 1
Small note, Zastin held Spider-Rito like cap held shot-in-the-gut ultimate Spider-Peter. You know the image.